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Identity crisis?

Added: 18 Mar 2024

When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…

Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR

Added: 4 Mar 2024

Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on cli…

Keep it clean

Added: 5 Feb 2024

Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…

Starry, starry night

Added: 5 Feb 2024

After just three years, the Lab Awards has come of age with a standalone event, a record number of …

Scents-ibly sustainable

Added: 8 Jan 2024

Rather than plundering scarce natural resources, Glasgow University scientists Hua Wang and Sofia S…

Turning down the heat

Added: 4 Dec 2023

Selecting the right cold storage for academic laboratories is a challenge, acknowledges Rob Fowler,…

Lab Babble: Swan’s Goosey gander

Added: 20 Nov 2023

Success is never guaranteed, we need to reward doggedness and chance, Russ Swan reminds us.

Breaking down a breakup

Added: 6 Nov 2023

The seas around Florida provided the opportunity to analyse the movement of the Earth’s crust durin…

Building scientific communities

Added: 6 Nov 2023

The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in h…

Material concerns

Added: 2 Oct 2023

After the Titan tragedy, Russ Swan calls for more science, less reckless conjecture.

The root of it

Added: 2 Oct 2023

Seaweed is an intrinsic part of our existence on this planet and it could just be the very thing th…

Getting drastic on plastic

Added: 25 Sep 2023

Our third feature on the Lab innovations My Green Lab/Laboratory News-curated sessions details Labc…

A lighter approach

Added: 18 Sep 2023

The drive to achieve sustainable laboratories affects all areas of operation. After the more obviou…

Game Theory: Ocean Pods

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Leicestershire-based Molinarius Games has a water focus. So how does its Ocean Pods board game meas…

Cycling to zero

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Images of workplace pollution and waste usually focus on heavy industry but ignore the sizeable con…

Look beyond the Horizon

Added: 3 Aug 2023

While many scientists are keen to see the UK back in the Horizon Europe programme, Professor Brian …

Time to get VOCal

Added: 3 Jul 2023

We rightly pay attention to CO₂ and methane, says Chang Foo, but more consideration is needed of th…

Health in the round

Added: 2 May 2023

In the second of our features on key talks from the recent Lab Innovations’ My Green Lab/Laboratory…

Wading with dinosaurs

Added: 24 Apr 2023

As the Natural History Museum hosts the first European display of Patagotitan, Brian J Ford resurfa…

Keener on greener

Added: 27 Mar 2023

Sustainability was the core of Lab Innovations’ MyGreenLab/Laboratory News seminar series. In the f…